• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1053-1060
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• 2016

As location recognition for autonomous vehicles develops, the need for a precise map for autonomous driving has increased. A precise map must be built based upon accurate position. Recent studies have accelerated research in this area by using various sensors that calculate the accurate position by comparing and recognizing objects around the roads. However, application of such methods is limited because these studies only take objects with significant verticality into consideration. Thus, new research is needed to overcome the limitations: a method that is not constrained by the existence of certain types of surrounding objects shall be proposed. Most roads contain road marking information, such as lanes, direction signs, and pedestrian crossings. Such information on the road surface is a valuable resource for building a precise map. This paper proposes a method of building a precise map by using road marking information.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2020

It is essential to estimate the vehicle localization for an autonomous safety driving. In particular, since LIDAR provides precise scan data, many studies carried out to estimate the vehicle localization using LIDAR and pre-generated map. The road marking always exists on the road because of provides driving information. Therefore, it is often used for map information. In this paper, we propose to generate the Gaussian mixture map based on road-marking information and localization method using this map. Generally, the probability distributions map stores the single Gaussian distribution for each grid. However, single resolution probability distributions map cannot express complex shapes when grid resolution is large. In addition, when grid resolution is small, map size is bigger and process time is longer. Therefore, it is difficult to apply the road marking. On the other hand, Gaussian mixture distribution can effectively express the road marking by several probability distributions. In this paper, we generate Gaussian mixture map and perform vehicle localization using Gaussian mixture map. Localization performance is analyzed through the experimental result.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2011

To enable the efficient operation of ITS, it is necessary to collect location data for vehicles on the road. In the case of futuristic transportation systems like ubiquitous transportation and smart highway, a method of data collection that is advanced enough to incorporate road lane recognition is required. To meet this requirement, technology based on radio frequency identification (RFID) has been researched. However, RFID may fail to yield accurate location information during high-speed driving because of the time required for communication between the tag and the reader. Moreover, installing tags across all roads necessarily incurs an enormous cost. One cost-saving alternative currently being researched is to utilize GNSS (global navigation satellite system) carrierbased location information where available. For lane recognition using GNSS, a precise digital map for determining vehicle position by lane is needed in addition to the carrier-based GNSS location data. A "precise digital map" is a map containing the location information of each road lane to enable lane recognition. At present, precise digital maps are being created for lane recognition experiments by measuring the lanes in the test area. However, such work is being carried out through comparison with vehicle driving information, without definitions being established for detailed performance specifications. Therefore, this study analyzes the performance requirements of a precise digital map capable of lane recognition based on the accuracy of GNSS location information and the accuracy of the precise digital map. To analyze the performance of the precise digital map, simulations are carried out. The results show that to have high performance of this system, we need under 0.5m accuracy of the precise digital map.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.102-116
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• 2021

4차 산업혁명의 대표라고 할 수 있는 자율주행차량의 안전한 운행을 위해서는 센서 기술, 소프트웨어 기술, 차량 기술 등 다양한 기술 조합이 필요하다. 자율주행차량은 차량 내에 탑재된 다양한 센서를 통해서 현재의 위치정보와 주변 상황을 인지하여 운전자에게 의존하지 않고 스스로 판단하고 주행하는 차량이다. 완전자율주행을 위해서는 완벽한 인지기술이 필요하고 정밀도로지도는 차선, 정지선, 신호등, 횡단보도 등에 대한 정보를 정밀하게 제공하고 있기 때문에 자율주행 차량에서 발생하는 인지 오차를 최소화시킬 수 있음으로, 신뢰성 있는 자율주행차량을 위해서는 도로 위 다양한 시설물들의 위치정보를 차량에 입력한 정밀지도 정보가 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 정밀도로지도의 정의 및 필요성 국내외 동향을 분석하고 실제 운영되고 있는 대구광역시 자율주행특화지역(수성의료지구, 약 24km)과 세종특별자치시 행복도시(약 33km), 서울대학교 시흥캠퍼스 FMTC(Future Mobility Technical Center) PG(Proving Ground)를 대상으로 국토지리정보원 MMS(Mobile Mapping System) 측량 성과물을 활용하여 정밀도로지도 서비스인 Web GIS 기반 HD(High Definition) Map 프로토타입을 구축하였다. 추후 연구에서는 본 연구에서 구축한 정밀도로지도 서비스를 자율주행차량 및 관제 시스템에 탑재 시켜 실시간 위치검증 및 위치보정 알고리즘의 성능 검증을 진행하고자 한다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.355-360
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• 2017

최근 자율주행 자동차 기술의 발전으로 정밀도로지도에 대한 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 정밀도로지도는 차선 정보, 규제 안전 정보, 각종 도로 시설물 등이 표현된 디지털 지도로 MMS(Mobile Mapping System) 기반으로 시험 제작되어 왔지만 이 방법은 고가의 도입비용으로 크게 활성화되지 못하고 있다. 하지만 무인항공기의 경우 적용 분야가 지속적으로 늘어나고 있으며, 이에 대한 연구도 다양한 분야에서 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고해상도 무인항공기 영상의 처리를 통해 자율주행에 필요한 차선, 시설물 등의 정보를 추출하고자 하였다. 자율주행 자동차 시험도로를 연구대상지로 선정하고, 무인항공기를 이용하여 고해상도 정사영상을 제작하였다. 기존의 수치지형도와 정밀도로지도의 속성비교를 통해 정밀도로지도 제작을 위한 차선, 중앙분리대, 제어기 등의 추출 항목을 선정하였다. 또한 영상분류를 통해 차선, 중앙분리대, 제어기 등 정밀도로지도 구축을 위한 데이터를 효과적으로 추출함으로써 고해상도 정사영상의 활용성을 제시하였다. 추가적인 실험과 검증을 통해 무인항공기 영상의 이용 분야를 확대할 수 있을 것이며, 구축된 데이터를 자동차 제작사 및 관련 민 관 기관, 벤처 기업 등에 제공한다면 국내 자율주행차 기술 발전에 기여할 것이다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권12호
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• pp.1046-1052
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• 2016

For the safe driving of autonomous vehicles, accurate position estimation is required. Generally, position error must be less than 1m because of lane keeping. However, GPS positioning error is more than 1m. Therefore, we must correct this error and a map matching algorithm is generally used. Especially, road marking intensity map have been used in many studies. In previous work, 3D LIDAR with many vertical layers was used to generate a local intensity map. Because it can be obtained sufficient longitudinal information for map matching. However, it is expensive and sufficient road marking information cannot be obtained in rush hour situations. In this paper, we propose a localization algorithm using an accumulated intensity local map. An accumulated intensity local map can be generated with sufficient longitudinal information using 3D LIDAR with a few vertical layers. Using this algorithm, we can also obtain sufficient intensity information in rush hour situations. Thus, it is possible to increase the reliability of the map matching and get accurate position estimation result. In the experimental result, the lateral RMS position error is about 0.12m and the longitudinal RMS error is about 0.19m.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.766-771
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• 2002

Automatic change detection based on the vector-to-raster comparison is hard especially in high-resolution image. This paper proposes a method to designate roads in high-resolution image in sequential manner using the information from vector map in which Hough transform is used for reliability. By its linearity, the road of urban areas in a vector map can be easily parameterized. Following some pre-processing to remove undesirable objects, we obtain the edge map of raster image. Then the edge map is transformed to a parameter space to find the selected road from vector map. The comparison is done in the parameter space to find the best matching. The set of parameters of a road from vector map is treated as the constraints to do matching. After designating the road, we may overlay it on the raster image for precise monitoring. The results can be used for detection of changes in road object in a semi-automatic fashion.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.131-146
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• 2017

그 동안의 자율협력주행차량의 개발이 센서를 기반으로 진행했던 것과 달리, 최근에는 센서의 단점을 보완하기 위해 LDM과 같은 외부 데이터를 활용한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 LDM 기반 정보로서 차량의 자율 주행을 위한 도로 정보를 제공하는 정적지도의 구축 방안을 제시하였다. 이를 위해 LDM 정적지도에 대한 국제표준인 ISO 14296과 국토지리정보원의 정밀지도의 데이터 사양 및 구축된 데이터를 검토한 후, 국토지리정보원의 데이터 사양 및 구축 방법의 국제표준과의 부합여부를 확인하였다. 검토 결과 데이터의 요구사항 및 정보 제공 측면에서는 비교적 양호하나, 도로 구조 표현에서는 국제표준과 부분적으로 부합하지 않아, 이에 대한 보완이 필요할 것으로 사료되며 미흡한 부분에 대한 보완 및 도로 구조 표현 방안을 제시하였다.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.45-56
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• 2013

The precise identification of vehicle positions, known as the vehicle localization problem, is an important requirement for building intelligent vehicle ad-hoc networks (VANETs). To solve this problem, two categories of solutions are proposed: stand-alone and data fusion approaches. Compared to stand-alone approaches, which use single information including the global positioning system (GPS) and sensor-based navigation systems with differential corrections, data fusion approaches analyze the position information of several vehicles from GPS and sensor-based navigation systems, etc. Therefore, data fusion approaches show high accuracy. With the position information on a set of vehicles in the preprocessing stage, data fusion approaches is used to estimate the precise vehicular location in the local map building stage. This paper proposes an efficient local map building scheme, which increases the accuracy of the estimated vehicle positions via V2V communications. Even under the low ratio of vehicles with communication modules on the road, the proposed local map building scheme showed high accuracy when estimating the vehicle positions. From the experimental results based on the parameters of the practical vehicular environments, the accuracy of the proposed localization system approached the single lane-level.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.42-48
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• 2023

In recent years, automated vehicles have garnered attention in the multidisciplinary research field, promising increased safety on the road and new opportunities for passengers. High-Definition (HD) maps have been in development for many years as they offer roadmaps with inch-perfect accuracy and high environmental fidelity, containing precise information about pedestrian crossings, traffic lights/signs, barriers, and more. Demonstrating autonomous driving requires verification of driving on actual roads, but this can be challenging, time-consuming, and costly. To overcome these obstacles, creating HD maps of real roads in a simulation and conducting virtual driving has become an alternative solution. However, existing HD maps using high-precision data are expensive and time-consuming to build, which limits their verification in various environments and on different roads. Thus, it is challenging to demonstrate autonomous driving on anything other than extremely limited roads and environments. In this paper, we propose a new and simple method for implementing HD maps that are more accessible for autonomous driving demonstrations. Our HD map combines the CARLA simulator and OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, which are both open-source, allowing for the creation of HD maps containing high-accuracy road information globally with minimal dependence. Our results show that our easily accessible HD map has an accuracy of 98.28% for longitudinal length on straight roads and 98.42% on curved roads. Moreover, the accuracy for the lateral direction for the road width represented 100% compared to the manual method reflected with the exact road data. The proposed method can contribute to the advancement of autonomous driving and enable its demonstration in diverse environments and on various roads.